With a +2.1% increase in dollar sales, the beer category outperformed wine (-2.4%) and spirits (+1.2%) in off-premise dollar sales, according to NielsenIQ data analyzed by 3 Tier Beverages for this episode of Brewbound Data Club. 3 Tier consultants Mary Mills and Stephanie Roatis discuss the beer category’s performance – which included dollar sales increases… Read more »
Halfway through 2022, the beverage-alcohol industry is facing an unending wave of headwinds. Scott Scanlon, EVP of market research firm IRI’s beverage-alcohol vertical, shares the firm’s mid-year report card for the bev-alc industry. Scanlon strikes an optimistic tone for the beer category for the rest of 2022.
The growth of hard seltzers and spirits-based, ready-to-drink offerings has reached “unicorn” status, Brandy Rand, chief operating officer for the Americas for market research firm IWSR, told Brewbound during the latest edition of Brewbound Data Club.
The lifestyle shifts brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 will endure in 2021, IRI’s Boris Oglesby shared during the latest edition of Brewbound Data Club.
3 Tier Beverages founders Donn Bichsel Jr. and Joe Sepka and Brager Beverage Alcohol Consulting owner Danny Brager discuss the forthcoming “March Mountain” that the industry will begin cycling as the anniversary of the COVID-19 stock-up phase approaches. They also share advice on portfolio management, how to remain in the good graces of retailers and wholesalers that are cutting back on their product selections, product pricing and much more.
On the latest edition of Brewbound’s Data Club series, Bump Williams Consulting’s Dave Williams and Brian “BK” Krueger break down the growth beyond beer offerings and discuss the opportunities for brewers in these spaces.
On the debut edition of Brewbound’s Data Club series, Drizly head of consumer insights Liz Paquette examines e-commerce trends in 2020 and offers a view of the future.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) Beer Purchasers’ Index — which tracks wholesalers’ monthly buying behaviors — expanded in October 2020 with an index of 76. Meanwhile, year-to-date through September, U.S. brewers have shipped more than 126.5 million barrels of beer, a decline of 0.9% (or more than 1.1 million barrels), according to domestic tax paid estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) shared by the Beer Institute.
